The dS/dS Correspondence

Journal Article · Fri Dec 10 04:00:00 EST 2004 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1848341· OSTI ID:20630500

Alishahiha, Mohsen ^[1]; Karch, Andreas ^[2]; Silverstein, Eva ^[3]; Tong, David ^[4]

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1. Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, P.O. Box 19395-5531, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
2. Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 (United States)
3. SLAC, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305/94309 (United States)
4. Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (United States)

We present a holographic duality for the de Sitter static patch which consolidates basic features of its geometry and the behavior of gravity and brane probes, valid on timescales short compared to the decay or Poincare recurrence times. Namely de Sitter spacetime dSd(R) in d dimensions with curvature radius R is holographically dual to two conformal field theories on dSd-1(R), cut off at an energy scale 1/R where they couple to each other and to d - 1 dimensional gravity. As part of our analysis, we study brane probes in de Sitter and thermal Anti de Sitter spaces, and interpret the terms in the corresponding DBI action via strongly coupled thermal field theory. This provides a dual field theoretic interpretation of the fact that probes take forever to reach a horizon in general relativity.

• OSTI ID: 20630500
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 743; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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